Re: BOUI - A wedding photographer from Brisbane invented Usenet?

In message <87tzjmi9gs.fld@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Floyd L. Davidson 
<floyd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes
>Chris H <chris@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>>I think if any one can lay claim to being the for runner of Usenet  it
>>would be the inventors of the  Fido BBS system.
>
>Not even close.
>
>Usenet preceded FidoNet by about 5 years,

Fair enough.

>and was in
>virtually all ways technically superior (a great deal of
>which was due to the technically much more advanced
>computer systems used for Usenet).

Yes. AFAIK Usenet ran on University computers whereas Fidonet was on 
home computers.


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